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Our Work Continues, Wherever We Are
It has been too long and I’ve missed y’all. Writing here has felt like one of the few safe and nourishing places for me in my time online. We all opted…
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Apr 7
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Notes on Inherent Dignity from the Service Industry
The last restaurant I worked at was a new oyster bar run by the group that owned several of Chicago’s most popular establishments. There’s a special…
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Jan 10
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In Praise of Kindness
“I don’t want to raise good kids,” I remember the pastor saying. “I want to raise WARRIORS for Christ.” The pastor was in the middle of a rant about how…
Julie Rodgers
Dec 21, 2021
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A New Home
On Sunday, I gave Prince and Toby Kitty Xanax, loaded them into carriers, and road-tripped with them to New York, where we moved into a cute little…
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Dec 10, 2021
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A Follow Up on Friendship + Sweet Links
Hello and happy holiday week to each of you! I’m having a lot of fun exploring the possibilities of friendship and I’m thankful to get to share this…
Julie Rodgers
Nov 23, 2021
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Friendship as the Normative Human Relationship
In my last newsletter, I asked if there might be a better way to structure our lives and loves—one that doesn’t revolve around the nuclear family. Queer…
Julie Rodgers
Nov 18, 2021
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Reimagining the Mainstream Love Story
I’ve written before about the problems with our mainstream love story. The one where we graduate college, find “the one,” get married, buy a home, have…
Julie Rodgers
Nov 4, 2021
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"Love That Journey For You"
On a Zoom with queer folks last week, we chatted about the never-ending task of accepting other people’s disapproval of us. It started with our…
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Oct 25, 2021
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Tiny Daily Exercises in Compassion
The hardest part of writing a memoir, by far, is knowing you’re writing about other human beings who may or may not still be alive. You must consider…
Julie Rodgers
Oct 13, 2021
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Want to Zoom this Friday?
Happy October! I don’t know what your summer was like, but I’m feeling very proud and relieved to have simply made it through. The changing season…
Julie Rodgers
Oct 6, 2021
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Testing Out New Lenses
On the Southern Baptist Convention and the context in which we were formed
Julie Rodgers
Sep 30, 2021
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Hey Julie! Should LGBTQ folks stay in non-affirming churches?
We’re jumping back into your questions this week and I could not be more pumped about it. This is part of a series of family chats, where people from…
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Sep 17, 2021
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Hey Julie! Should LGBTQ folks stay in non-affirming churches?
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